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State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF backtest

10 trend-following strategies were compared on the full daily history of State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF. 7 beat buy-and-hold CAGR; ROC 모멘텀 ranks first by Sharpe, matching the main backtester. The return/drawdown alternative is ROC 모멘텀 (CAGR 0.2%, MDD -0.5%).

Data 2012-06-19 ~ 2026-07-31daily bars 3,549 (14.1 years)Costs 0.5%Venue XASEMonthly snapshot 2026-07-31

Results by strategy

7 of 10 beat buy and hold (CAGR -0.7%, drawdown -23.3%).

Sharpe leader (same as main): ROC 모멘텀 — CAGR 0.2%, MDD -0.5%, Sharpe 0.41, 0% exposure.

Return/drawdown alternative: ROC 모멘텀 — CAGR is 0.9%p higher than buy and hold, while drawdown improves by 22.8%p (CAGR 0.2%, MDD -0.5%, exposure 0%).

The alternative must retain 75% of buy-and-hold CAGR, improve drawdown by at least 20% and 5 percentage points, and stay below 95% exposure; the ranking weights return retention 60% and drawdown improvement 40%.

Strategy · parametersCAGRMDDSharpeCalmarTotalTradesExposure
ROC 모멘텀
n=78, threshold=0.11
0.2%-0.5%0.410.381.0x20%
Donchian 채널 돌파
entryN=49, exitN=76
-0.1%-8.0%-0.00-0.021.0x2059%
ADX / DI 방향성
period=37, threshold=34
-0.0%-1.5%-0.06-0.011.0x21%
SMA 크로스오버
fast=11, slow=251
-0.4%-8.0%-0.07-0.050.9x2252%
EMA 크로스오버
fast=39, slow=171
-0.5%-10.6%-0.10-0.050.9x1653%
Keltner 채널 돌파
emaPeriod=32, atrPeriod=12, mult=4
-0.2%-4.1%-0.13-0.041.0x42%
볼린저 밴드 돌파
n=23, k=3.1
-0.3%-4.5%-0.24-0.061.0x61%
Supertrend
period=20, mult=4.1
-1.6%-25.3%-0.31-0.060.8x4555%
Parabolic SAR
step=0.005, maxStep=0.3
-4.9%-51.7%-0.91-0.090.5x12452%
MACD
fast=24, slow=45, signal=30
-5.1%-52.5%-1.06-0.100.5x12447%
Buy and hold-0.7%-23.3%-0.04-0.030.9x1100%
1x 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025 ROC 모멘텀Buy and hold
ROC 모멘텀: Solid strategy line versus dashed buy-and-hold line. Log scale.
0% -6% -12% -18% -23% 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025 Buy and holdROC 모멘텀
ROC 모멘텀 maximum drawdown -0.5% (2020-07-09 → 2020-07-10), recovered after 6 days.

Rules of the top strategy

Rides the trend when recent return (momentum) over a window is above a threshold.

Method and caveats

Past performance does not guarantee future returns. Parameters were selected on the same full-history sample using sharpe over 40 trials per strategy, so results contain in-sample bias. 0.5% trading costs are included; taxes, slippage and rejected orders are not.
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